Church of St Peter is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1985. Church.
Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- white-minaret-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 December 1985
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Peter, Camerton
- OS grid reference
- NY 035 300
- Coordinates
- 54.65636, -3.49654
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Peter is a parish church located in Camerton, built in 1694 and 1796, with a tower added in 1855 on a medieval site. The church features roughcast walls, while the tower is made of calciferous sandstone rubble and includes angle buttresses. It has a graduated greenslate roof. The structure consists of a three-bay nave with a square west tower/porch and a south chapel, along with a single-bay chancel. The tower has a west door set in a chamfered pointed arch, flanked by lancet windows and quatrefoil bell openings, topped by a short octagonal spire. The nave is adorned with two-light plate-tracery windows, and the chancel contains two small trefoil-headed windows, one in the east wall, as well as a three-light east window. Inside, the church has plain plaster walls and ceiling, decorated with numerous 19th-century wall plaques. Notable features include a 1510 effigy of Knight Thomas Curwen, known as Black Tom, and a wooden panel dated 1625, removed from Camerton Hall, inscribed with the initials B.C. and H.C. (Henry & Bridget Curwen). Most of the woodwork dates from the late 19th century.
Local climate
Church of St Peter sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,470 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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